Voters in the Bluegrass State have picked the GOP candidate in the past four elections, according to Ballotpedia. In 2012, Republican nominee Mitt Romney won the state with 60.5% of the vote.

Kentucky has become increasingly conservative in recent years. "We have no minorities here," Democratic political consultant Danny Briscoe told theCourier-Journal. "It was 7% black last time I looked. ... There is not gay or Jewish populations outside of Louisville and Lexington. It's Southern Baptist, white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just how it is."

Trump maintained a strong lead in Kentucky throughout the campaign. An Ipsos poll conducted from Oct. 7 to Oct. 27 put Trump ahead of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton by 21 percentage points.